Quotes about Persistence
when something painful or disagreeable happens to me, instead of a melancholy look, I answer by a smile. At first I did not always succeed, but now it has become a habit which I am glad to have acquired.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
I must walk right up to my last moment.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on
— Theodore Roosevelt
It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Greatness comes only to those who seek not how to avoid obstacles, but how to overcome them.
— Theodore Roosevelt
When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Fight like a man. Habit is overcome by habit.
— Thomas a Kempis
It is not really a small thing when in small things we resist self.
— Thomas a Kempis
Conquest of the self demands the hardest of struggles
— Thomas a Kempis